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Towards Extraction of Conceptual Structures from Electronic Health Records

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Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies (ICCS 2009)

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This paper presents the general framework and the current results of a project that aims to develop a system for knowledge discovery and extraction from the texts of Electronic Health Records in Bulgarian language. The proposed hybrid approach integrates language technologies and conceptual processing. The system generates conceptual graphs encoding the patient case history, which contains templates for the patient’s diseases, symptoms and treatments. We describe simple inference in the generated graphs resource bank. Some experiments and their evaluation are presented in the article.

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  1. State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, 119 Tzarigradsko Shose Blvd., 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Svetla Boytcheva

  2. Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Galia Angelova

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  1. Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Sebastian Rudolph

  2. SAP Research Center CEC Dresden, Chemnitzer Strasse 48, 01187, Dresden, Germany

    Frithjof Dau

  3. Higher School of Economics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Information Science, State University, Kirpichnaya 33/5, 105679, Moscow, Russia

    Sergei O. Kuznetsov

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Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G. (2009). Towards Extraction of Conceptual Structures from Electronic Health Records. In: Rudolph, S., Dau, F., Kuznetsov, S.O. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies. ICCS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03079-6_8

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